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slash disclosures. I'm Scott Weiss, a general partner here at Andresen Horowitz, and I'm here with

Ben Kaufman, the CEO of Quirky. Topic today is the connected home and Internet of Things, and

just wanted to kick that off a little bit with, you know, I think Chris Anderson had this great

quote of the, who left his job at at wired to go chase a drone company.

And the quote was, hey, you know, I'm taking advantage of the piece of it end from the cell phone

wars. You know, I think drones, toys, and many of the connected home products have benefited

from these, you know, the preponderance of sensors

and, you know, cheap batteries and cheap processors.

And so now we're sticking them into just about everything.

In fact, you know, I saw a moisture sensor on a dog bowl the other day.

And I wondered, you know, kind of have we gone too far?

And so, Ben, you know, your company has, you know, developed a number of connected home

products.

And I wonder if you could just kind of, you know, kind of lay out the landscape a little bit

as you see it and all, we can go back and forth from there.

Sure, yeah.

We jumped into this about 18 months, so 24 months ago.

Not necessarily to what we were jumping into, but what we saw were a community invention site,

so we saw about 24% of community ideas being products that have radios built inside them.

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